Posted by Farmer on July 27, 2011 at 01:38:33
In Reply to: Re: Here is my Journey's position on the "born this way" issue. posted by MG on July 26, 2011 at 17:17:57:
MG...I am thankful, that we can discuss it openly...
The point I wonder about is that the google results, coming up first were really not the very latest some even 7 years old or so...one study in Australia isn't as clear as the US-study...even one researcher doubts, that just one gene is to be found "rather a "cocktail" of influences...
Take schizophrenia...I am not really very learned about it, but someone I regurlarly see...a churchvisitor told me, that there seems also to be a genetical component...some people I know, want depression to be that way too...I am doubtful so far.
Point for me was, that no one seems to deny, that there are homosexuals who changed their sexual preferences to becoming heterosexually orientated.
Now would that be bad?...Apparently it happened by prayer and dedication...also a good portion of repentance...which is translated from Greek nothing else but thinking anew...passed an old level so to speak...as an analogy some type of "rewiring"...
I personally think it's wrong to single out any sinner as someone specially weird...be it a homosexual or a liar or thief...all is not "sane" so to speak...
It's not long ago, that I had a preference for anything sweet as food or as a "reward"...I realised it did me not much of a favour...I stopped..."by thinking about the consequences"
Lust and deceit are linked...IMO and that is where cures would have to start too....thinking about the lust
I figure, we have to wait some more, to get some genetical information about the whole agenda ...or not